This is kind of a wierd question, but here goes.....

Does anyone else ever feel any actual physical sensations in their head when dealing with an ADD/ ADHD challenge? Or associate their ADD with specific locations in their head / brain?

I will actually get minor sensations of pain in a particular spot on my head when I try to work with numbers in my head. Another feeling not of pain, but almost a fuzzy, thick, slightly cold sensation in a very specific spot inside my head when I'm trying to make decisions and the thoughts are getting congested. I noticed these sensations long before I realized I was dealing with ADD.

Anyone else have similar sensations?

I've noticed that I can't process things very well when I"m overloaded. It is as though part of my higher functioning shuts off. Usually byt that point, I'm so non-operational that I get stressed if I am trying to focus on anything. I don't feel any pain, no funny sensations whatsoever.... I just feel overloaded.

ME :D

I have the overloaded feeling too.... but I get the actual 'math cramp' about 2" back from my hairline just left of center of the top of my head, feels not too deep into my brain. Weird. I can't locate the second one unless I'm actually feeling it, but it seems a little forward & farther inside.

Yeah I feel these types of sensations too, just wierd feelings, only slight but noticable.

One thing though at one point I took Nortriptyline (Pamlor) for ADHD on the Doctors advice and found that I felt incredibly light in the frontal part of my brain. Mentioned it to the Doctor but he'd never heard that description before.

Mine are pretty consistent in location..... yours too?

When I'm feeling very ADD-ish, I feel as if the top of my head from about an inch above my ears, circling around in a 6 inch circle is stuffed with cotton batting.

The back half of my head is where the cotton balls reside. It's always a bit foggy back there but when I'm really ADD, I don't think even air could make it through. Sometimes I have uncontrollable thoughts at the front of my brain..like when I'm trying to read but I can't get the image of a bouncing beach ball out of my head...that's where it is.